About four months ago, The World’s Biggest Bookstore, a downtown Toronto bookstore which boasts more titles than any other bookstore in the world, announced… The Jewish Tribune Read Full Article
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Category: Books
Seeing Immigration as a Point of Embarkation
Several years ago, I wrote a book review that elicited vociferous comments online. The book centred on the constrained lives of a pair of young women in South Asia. I had criticized the way the…
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The Juggler’s Children: A journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us, a Governor General’s literary award finalist by Toronto-based journalist and author Carolyn Abraham, is a fascinating personal journey into the author’s…
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An insider’s view of the Harper Government
BOOK REVIEW: Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism, by Andrew Griffith, Anar Press, 2013, 117 pages Any time a just-retired mandarin decides to write about his days serving the “Harper Government” should…
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Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize, and Canada’s Changing Identity
When Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature last week, the announcement was greeted with near-unanimous cheers from writers, academics and readers around the world.Writers and academics extolled the 82-year-old author as a…
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Dr. Vivienne Poy’s Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada was launched at York University in Toronto recently. The retired Senator told those in attendance that she was the first Asian…
View More Vivienne Poy Book LaunchThe Great Canadian Double Cross
Review of The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What it Means for Our Future – by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson HarperCollins (2013), 294 pages This week’s Globe…
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OTTAWA – I used to be part of an all-women’s book club in Ottawa a few years ago. In 2008, I remember recommending to the group that we read the newly-released book, Cockroach by Montreal-based,…
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Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings – by Paul Schliesmann, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012, 207 pages Without Honour: The True Story of the Shafia Family and the Kingston Canal…
View More Shafia case: a complex immigrant scenarioImmigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
Vivek Wadhwa has become something of a media darling in the United States for championing immigration reform in this very political season. He uses every opportunity he gets to warn Americans that they are making…
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